Baseball Cards That Never Were: What-If Baseball cards, Topps sub sets

With the exception of a few combo cards in the 1953 Bowman or 1954 and 1957 Topps sets, sub sets did not catch on until the 1958 Topps set. The 1958 set marked the start of Topps including sub sets like all stars, highlight cards, MVP's, league leaders, etc. The uniqueness and relatively lower price point of these cards have made them very popular with collectors.

Although Topps was very clever with the design of these cards over the years, I couldn't resist the opportunity to put my spin on a few of the more popular sub sets of the 50's and early 60's Topps issues:

1957 Topps Ford/Mantle/Martin